What distinguishes a good Airbnb host from a mediocre one likely means something different to every traveler. Some vacationers expect their host to provide an all-encompassing experience rather than just clean towels; that could mean that the homeowner, say, slings pastries and offers quirky activities to those temporarily sharing their space. Yet that friendly impulse may also be considered inappropriate to some guests—a fundamental misalignment that extends far beyond bespoke rental spots.

My dream is to breathe the Mediterranean air.
My dream is to dance on the dinner table,
is to melt into sound, is a never-ending chase.
Follow the spiral, my dream says, because a place
is also a memory where all the shadows are white.
My dreams look like homesickness, like peeling
oranges on a hot summer day in my grandpa’s
backyard, except in the dream he is still alive
and the ocean is still blue. The moment I know
I am able to fly is when I see the tree, the leaves
swaying, and I jump.

Tony Lyons knows how Republicans can win the midterm elections later this year. All they need to do, as he explained in a memo to GOP leaders in February, is embrace the Make America Healthy Again movement, or at least the popular parts of it, like banning soda from SNAP benefits and ditching artificial food dyes. Divisive anti-vaccine issues, in contrast, must be “addressed carefully and with nuance.

In 2005, a bipartisan commission of lawmakers and security experts concluded that “the Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.” America’s spies had told President George W. Bush that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted a nuclear-weapons program and that Iraq possessed biological weapons and mobile production facilities, as well as stockpiles of chemical weapons. These supposed facts became the basis for a U.S.

The oil shocks of the 1970s forced traumatic austerity on Americans. Some gas stations had miles-long lines; fuel was rationed based on whether a car’s license-plate number was even or odd; the White House Christmas tree went unlit; daylight savings was imposed year-round. The fuel crisis that America’s war on Iran has unleashed is far larger—the biggest oil-supply shock in history, an estimated three times the disruption caused by the Arab oil embargo.